Walk in at 9:30 am off of a graveyard shift from the Idaho Nuclear Laboratory. Turn on the news because your kids are at school watching a teacher become an astronaut. Then find out an engineer told the brass that it would happen. They were spread all over the Everglades and I got to sit down and explain to my kids politicians suck.
I remember that day well....
We live close enough to KSC that we usually walk out to our backyard to watch the launch soon after it happens
It was a bitter cold morning so I didn’t go out.....
I watched on TV till I realized something had gone wrong
THEN I went outside and saw the crazy contrails going every which way
Our county was in mourning for a long time